SIXTY YEARS ON THE TURF 



Custance rode with spurs, but no whip, and just got 

 home by a head from Prioress (Fordham), and The 

 Brewer (Hughes), who dead-heated for second place. 

 Mr. Lambert, I may add, gave 800 sovs. for Rocket 

 and Queenstown, purchasing the pair from Mr. 

 Padwick. Mr. Lambert and I had many trans- 

 actions both in betting and buying. I have never 

 met a fairer dealer or a firmer friend. 



With Mr. Edward Green matters did not run so 

 smoothly. He was a very heavy bettor, and often 

 when I asked him to put me a tenner on he would 

 make his own investment three hundred. This I did 

 not mind, except that he " averaged " the price. 

 Thus he would get lO's to his first outlay, and then 

 accept 5's, returning me 6's or 7's. Morris knew 

 this, and used to chaff me about Green being my 

 " master." One day at dinner at the Regent Hotel 

 at Leamington, I called to Green, " What did my 

 fiver on King of Greece bring in ?" 



" Thirty." 



"Tut, tut," said Morris. "That's not fair. I 

 laid you eight fifties, and I saw you take another 

 eight fifties. The governor ought to be on at 8's." 



" But I took 5's and 4's afterwards to money. I 

 average matters." 



" Oh, that's it, is it ! You scarcely know a horse 

 from a hen. You follow me blindly, win any amount 



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